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It's a wronged woman's dream scenario, and Meyers' intent in showing the reality of the fantasy coming true is clever and fresh. But It's Complicated is positioned more as a which-guy-will-she-choose story, and thanks to Jake's clear-cut case of permanent jerkitis...
Clad in white linen and a flowery shirt, Paul Theroux looked a picture of contentment during a recent speechmaking swing through Bangkok. Two Polynesian-style tattoos designed by the 68-year-old himself curved from an exposed wrist and sockless calve. Holding court within the quaintly colonial Authors' Wing of...
Writers are often quite different in the flesh than in their books. And, on the eve of the release of Theroux's 47th, it was striking how much an author frequently chastised for snide condescension toward numerous realms and races appeared genuinely genial and warm-hearted. Was this really the...
With his latest novel, A Dead Hand: A Crime in Calcutta(available internationally with American release slated for early next year), the New England-bred author builds on his distinction as the contemporary writer most responsible for the West's vision of Asia. By staying low to the ground (mostly...
In person and on the page, Theroux displays his biases as proudly as his passport stamps. It is places, not people, that always seem to resonate for him more deeply - as in A Dead Hand, where "the stew of Calcutta," as he puts it, overpowers all other subjects. "The cracks...